Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Us gals are in a very celebratory mood after a very successful Olympics - we don't want it to end! We certainly feel very proud of Team GBs achievements so with this in mind, we're asking you to create projects with a congrats theme this fortnight.

Now don't worry, you don't have to dedicate your card to Team GB if you aren't a fan of the Olympics - just stick with the theme and use at least one PTI product to join in the fun :)

For my card I used a set that I haven't inked up for ages. Happy Trails is such a sweet set, I should give it more inky love every now and again:

I feel this card has a congrats theme even though the sentiment doesn't literally say 'Congrats'. I'm thinking of using this for an exam congrats or a card to celebrate the start of college/university. Oh those were the days *sigh* LOL!

Over to Caryn:

Well this challenge made me want to reach for my Scattered Showers set - one of my all-time favourites. This could be for a bridal shower or baby shower perhaps - or just a general congrats card! The layout is actually from this weeks Retro Sketches challenge which you can see here. The little fabric heart on the umbrella is actually cut from Aqua Mist grosgrain ribbon with the hearts border die - it cut surprisingly well!

* Enter as any times as you wish! All entries must contain at least onePTIproduct to qualify and can cater for as many different challenges as you please! (please state what isPTIas sometimes it's hard for us to see...)

* All entries must be newly created
(well, new to Blogland anyways!). Please don't link to old posts that
might happen to fit the brief of the challenge!! Please leave a link back to this challenge on your entry too :)

*
To enter, use our inlinkz thingy at the bottom of this post. Please
leave the correct URL for your entry post and not just your generic blog
address! If you're having problems then just leave a comment with a
link to your post featuring the project on your blog or online gallery.
* Worldwide entries are more than
welcome to share the inspiration and can be in with a chance of being a
Top 3 PTI Passionista, but unfortunately prizes can only be shipped
within Europe!

* Challenge closes on Monday, September 3rd 2012 at 9.00am BST

* As well as a randomly picked
winner, we'll select the top three creations we like the most and
feature them on the Blog. The top three PTI Passionistas will have
chance to display a Top 3 Passionista Blinkie on their own blog.!

Monday, 20 August 2012

Happy Monday! It could be extra happy for you as we announce the winner and Top 3 PTI Passionistas of our past challenge. We had on overwhelming amount of entries; thanks to everyone who joined in the fun with us!

So the randomly selected winner of the cutie pie punny sentiments set is:

Number 15 which is lucky for Sandie! Congrats Sandie! Email us your postal addy to apassionforpapertrey(at)yahoo(dot)com and we'll get that set out to you!

Now for our Top 3 PTI Passionistas. We wanted to add more to our Top 3 with so many fabulous entries to choose from - you made our choices hard but we finally narrowed it down to the following:

Lee had us embracing the summer even more with those super cute flip flops! What a fun, summery way to say hello!

Gerdine made our jaws drop with her beautiful baby card. So soft, pretty and delicate!

Erin grabbed our eyes with this fun CAS card with super stamping. We also loved the added touch of the decorative edge!

Congrats ladies! If you need a blinkie and we can get it working, then pop us and email and we'll try our best to get it to you in working order (still got to get my resident geek to look at it properly!) Resident geek is a wonder! Find the working code in the left hand column :)

Thanks once again to everyone who played along with us! We hope you can join us again as we introduce a shiny new challenge tomorrow!

Thursday, 9 August 2012

Hello one and all and welcome to a spanking (yes, I have been reading FSOG) new challenge here at A Passion For Papertrey. This time we're asking you to Take Your Pick from the many (or few) PTI supplies you have and come up with something fabulous!! It doesn't just have to be a card - as long as you've got some PTI lovliness in there somewhere we'll be happy!!

This year I was able to make great use of my alphabet dies when making my Thank You Teacher cards. I have realised though that I really do need to order the upper case set too!!! The Fruit Fusion: Apple set also comes in very useful for these cards too!

Over to Kate: "It's been a while since I had to make a baby card but some dear friends of mine recently welcomed a beautiful baby boy into the world so I grabbed my Bitty Baby Blessings - can you believe I bought this when it was released in 2008!! Where does the time go?!!"

Over to Aimes: "I've been playing around with my embossing powder and heat gun to come up with a simple thank you card for my stash:Card DeetsStamps: Peaceful Garden (Papertrey Ink)Ink: VersamarkCardstock: Royal Velvet, Fine Linen (Papertrey Ink)Accessories: Gold Detail Embossing Powder (Stampendous)/Vintage Cream Satin Ribbon (Papertrey Ink)Isn't it apt that I've used gold embossing powder when you think of how well Team GB are doing in the Olympics! *wink*

The prize this time is this cute little punny sentiment set: Lighten Up Sentiments

Here are all the details you'll need to know about entering:

* Enter as any times as you wish! All entries must contain at least onePTIproduct to qualify and can cater for as many different challenges as you please! (please state what isPTIas sometimes it's hard for us to see...)

* All entries must be newly created
(well, new to Blogland anyways!). Please don't link to old posts that
might happen to fit the brief of the challenge!! Please leave a link back to this challenge on your entry too :)

*
To enter, use our inlinkz thingy at the bottom of this post. Please
leave the correct URL for your entry post and not just your generic blog
address! If you're having problems then just leave a comment with a
link to your post featuring the project on your blog or online gallery.

* Worldwide entries are more than
welcome to share the inspiration and can be in with a chance of being a
Top 3 PTI Passionista, but unfortunately prizes can only be shipped
within Europe!

* Challenge closes on Monday, August 20th 2012 at 9.00am BST

* As well as a randomly picked
winner, we'll select the top three creations we like the most and
feature them on the Blog. The top three PTI Passionistas will have
chance to display a Top 3 Passionista Blinkie on their own blog.!

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The Passion for Papertrey Girls!

(from left: Kate Lewis, Caryn Davies, Amy Wanford)

Welcome to A Passion for Papertrey - a place where lovers of Papertrey Ink can get together to share ideas, inspiration, take part in challenges and join swaps!

We're Kate, Aimes and Caryn - we all live in the UK and became friends thanks to our mutual love of all things Papertrey. We soon found out there were lots of other fans in the UK and Europe and thought there should be a corner of the web to bring us together.

Of course we welcome readers from around the world but our primary aim is to unite stampers who use Papertrey products from the UK and the rest of Europe.

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Every fortnight we will set a challenge using Papertrey products AND at the end of each challenge we will randomly draw a winner who will recieve some Papertrey goodies! This may be a roll of ribbon, a selection of papers and matching cardstock or even a stamp set!!

We know that as it is an overseas company you may not have a large collection of stamps and Papertrey colours so these will be kept quite general.

For example if you don't have the Papertrey colours you could use one of their stamps and cardstock/papers from other companies, or get creative with just some Papertrey papers and ribbon - the main thing is to have fun!

We'd love to be able to share the projects that you've made with your Papertrey products! We're always looking for Papertrey projects so if you would like yours to be featured on here email us at apassionforpapertrey(at)yahoo(dot)com

Need inspiration? We will regularly feature Papertrey projects from stampers around the world - these may be the Papertrey Design team or other stampers who inspire us to use our Papertrey products in new ways.

We will be organising swaps for stampers to exchange their projects. Details coming soon!